In the ’50s, vintage fruit cocktail was added to everything from jello salads to canned meat. Here, see 42 weird old-fashioned ways they used to eat the stuff!
This three-layered Christmas-colored lime-strawberry surprise recipe features two flavors of jello, and a creamy layer in the middle made with cream cheese, mayonnaise and nuts.
This three-layered Christmas-colored lime-strawberry surprise recipe features two flavors of jello, and a creamy layer in the middle made with cream cheese, mayonnaise and nuts.
There’s new Jell-O salad gelatin in two flavors, celery or mixed vegetable. Either savory salad gelatin provides a receptive base for vegetables and meats. The results can be main dishes, or side salads or even jellied soups.
Back in the ’60s, they called this recipe Fruits Royal Hawaiian — a easy-to-carve pineapple basket filled with a luscious fresh fruit salad. Get the how-to here!
Garnishes can also be an integral part of a dish. What could be prettier than a carrot larkspur, a turnip narcissus, or a cucumber lily? Or a rose, that by any other name, is a radish, lemon, lime, or tomato?
Here’s a peachy keen creamy peach double-decker Jello salad recipe from 1979, which features apricot brandy, sliced peaches and orange gelatin.
Consisting of lots of lettuce, browned hamburger, a variety of vegetables, sauces and dressings, a taco salad is a meal in itself.
If you’re a salad-lover, but you’ve run out of new salad ideas, this will be the best news you’ve read in years! It’s a completely new kind of salad. One that wins applause — especially from men — like no other salad you ever served!
Bounce a church supper! Serve up veggies in a harvest ring Jell-O mold salad, or try this recipe for a molded gelatin with a carrot-cucumber salad.
As originally created, the Waldorf Salad was a crunchy mixture of apples and celery tossed with mayonnaise. Someone later added broken walnuts, and this is the version that we have come to accept as the classic Waldorf Salad. Here’s the original and two more recipes!
California avocados, Doritos tortilla chips and ground beef make it hearty and nourishing. You make it fast.
Avocado history: On the first mention of “alligator pear” (1922) The earliest mention of the manner in which the name “alligator pear” was first applied
Here’s a different way to serve a salad — inside a gelatin mold, with a combination of lime Jell-O on top of a layer of a sour cream-jello blend that’s studded with nuts and chopped celery!
To make a dazzling display at any dinner or lunch, serve a shimmery, splendorous aspic. (What’s an aspic? A savory, rather than sweet, gelatin encasing
Now’s the time for Jell-O salads! Don’t let a week go by without serving one. Recipes below: 1. Jellied Potato Salad 2. Carrot and Apple
GOURMET FEASTS FOR THANKSGIVING Those special holiday tables need just a dash of confidence The picture-perfect dishes you envy in magazines can spring from the
Waldorf salad — featuring apples, celery and mayonnaise served on lettuce — has been a favorite ever since it was introduced into the American cuisine dozens of years ago. But nowadays, the salad has taken on new ways.
Ice cream salad recipes: Tomato ice cream, cucumber ice cream & avocado ice cream The tomato ice cream on the rocks [below] makes a frosty start
This tasty variation of chicken salad is equally good as a hearty hot dish or a cool and tempting summer salad! So easy to make, too.
The following 20 salad dressings and sauces are, without exception, easily made, and of such variety that it is possible to have a desirable change with nearly every salad made.
When a friend of ours told us that she had concocted a green pea salad that her three children and her husband thoroughly approved, we begged for the recipe.
What do you get when you combine lemon jello with tuna, mayonnaise, onion, celery and pimento? A Monterey souffle salad! Here’s how they used to make it.
Avacado. The salad bowl that’s good enough to eat. Think of the California Avocado half as a natural salad bowl. The filling is a flavorful
There’s bright flavor to savor in Miracle Whip It takes the spiciest spices (over 20 and as fresh as can be) to create that pleasing,
Shake ‘n Bake and extra chicken today …and have a picnic tomorrow. Shake ‘n Bake chicken tastes so good hot or cold, you get two
Del Monte green beans start salads right Already perfectly cooked. Tender yet firm enough to toss. Won’t go limp when chilled in dressing. You and
Create a summer sensation with Creamettes and California ripe olives Garden toss spaghetti recipe 2 tablespoons oil 1 large carrot, grated 1 medium zucchini, sliced
Yours to own or give: The versatile Bundt Pan A temping trio of Bundt Pan specialties, clockwise from top: souffle with frozen-daquiri tang; ham
String bean and bacon salad Delicate Wesson Oil dressing brings out every fine flavor! 1 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1/3 cup Wesson
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
30 vintage TV dinners: Fried chicken, turkey, pot roast & other fab frozen food, retro-style 
20 vintage pink bathrooms: See some wild bubblegum-era midcentury home decor of the 1950s & 1960s 
US Army shoulder insignia (1945) 
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